On Nov 27, 2007 9:22 AM, Stefan Reinauer stepan@coresystems.de wrote:
With all this, if I unpack a LAR archive, and repack it again, will it still produce a working archive?
No, it won't. You lose the entry point info. We would have to unpack LAR to ELF files. This is a limitation I had not thought of. Should I have an option to unpack to elf? It would not be hard.
.. I think this broke at least OFW as a payload. But that's a different story. In general I agree ELF parsing does not necessarily belong into the core firmware. Interesting to see how many broken ELF files are out there these days.
Sorry to hear about OFW, how do we fix it?
ron